Sunday in the garden and at the ball park

Hi Family, Charles and I had a wonderful Sunday, so, I thought I would blog about it. The weather was just right to be outside all afternoon with bright sun and a nice breeze. On Saturday, I went to the store for fertilizer, potting soil, container pots and some ideas for our front yard. Thanks to Mom I had some seeds to use either in the ground or in the pots. I was also tempted at the store to buy tomato plants and some inpatients . Both the inpatients and tomato plants managed to make it into my cart and into my car to come home with me, along with all the other essentials for gardening in the NC red clay soil.

Also thanks to Lisa's Christmas gifts, I donned my slogger's (red gardening shoes), pink gardening gloves, old jeans and a white t shirt and hat. Charles's tilled up the ground for me in the spots I wanted to plant, but I still had to dig a bit more into the clay. I added potting soil and fertilizer to everything I planted. I think I got hang of using the potting soil more towards the end of the day, so, I think those plants and seeds might do the best in the clay. I chose to put seeds in the big containers, a mix of seeds in the front bed (as a trial and error, to see what sprouts) and the inpatients in between the monkey grass in the front bed as well. The tomato plants are on the side of the house with the most sun. My Sunday gardening plan was a success, I got everything done I wanted too. The next step will see what grows! haha! Oh... I also put some inpatients at the mailbox with the cosmos. Hopefully (crossing my fingers) I can share pictures of my successes later! If I shared pictures now, it would just be pictures of the ground! haha!

After gardening, we went to the Durham Bulls baseball game with our neighbor friends and their friends from Michigan, near Ann Arbor. We sat at near the first base line. Not much action on the field, so Monique (neighbor friend) and I chatted a lot. Of course, we enjoyed some ball park food and beers. After the 7th inning stretch and little action, we left in the 10th inning, only later to find out the Bulls pulled out the win after we left! Oh well... The group had dinner at Tyler's Pub in the Tobacco Campus, which is an old tobacco factory that now houses restaurants and offices. We dinned outside and stayed until it was too dark to see our food anymore. It was one of the best Sundays I have had in a long time!